new developments in the story of the president, the hush money and porn star. the "new york times" now reports that president trump knew about the payment long before denying it. also this hour, an erupting volcano in hawaii threatens a road. and new details on the pending meeting between president trump and the north korean leader. we'll have a live report from seoul. welcome to you viewers. i'm live in atlanta. natalie allen here for you. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

and we're following breaking developments in the legal firestorms around u.s. president trump. there are new details about the president's personal attorney michael cohen stockpiling access to cash. more on that in a moment, but first even more conflicting stories about the hush money paid to stormy daniels. the new york times reports president trump actually knew about the payment several months before telling reporters here on air force one that he knew nothing about it. this as the white house is doing damage control trying to clean up the mess left by another trump attorney rudy giuliani. senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny reports from the white house. >> how is rudy doing? >> reporter: president trump shrugging his shoulders before

throwing his longtime friend and new lawyer rudy giuliani under the bus. >> so rudy knows it is a witch hunt. he started yesterday. he will get his facts straight. >> reporter: damning words from the president after giuliani created a firestorm this week by saying the president knew about repaying hush money to stormy daniels. >> it's simple. but there has been a lot of misinformation really. people wanting to say, and i say you know what, learn before you speak. it's a lot easier. >> reporter: yet he never said what giuliani got wrong. >> rudy is great, but he just started and he wasn't totally familiar with everything. >> reporter: traveling to class to address the nra convention today, the president fueling the white house credibility crisis. he insisted he hadn't changed his story on stormy daniels even though he had. >> we're not changing any stories. all i'm telling you is that this country is right now running so

smooth and to be bringing up that kind of crap and to be bringing up witch hunts all the time, that is all you want to talk about, you're going to see -- excuse me, excuse me. you have to -- excuse me, you take a look at what i said. you go back and take a look. you'll see what i said. >> you said no. >> you take a look at what i said. >> reporter: here is what he said a month ago. do you know about the repayment of the hush money? do you know where he got the money? >> no, i don't know. >> reporter: in a statement giuliani sought to clear up the con confusion. he said it was my understanding of these matters. meanwhile the president all but closing the door to an interview with special counsel robert mueller saying he wouldn't be treated fairly. >> nobody wants to speak more than me. in fact against my lawyers because most lawyers say never speak on anything. i would love to speak.

because we've done nothing wrong. if i thought it was fair, i would override my lawyers. >> reporter: the president also offering a rare public embrace of embattled white house chief of staff john kelly. >> general kelly is doing a fantastic job. there has been such false reporting about our relationship. we have a great relationship. >> i would say it is a privilege to work for aed from that has gotten the economy going, we're about to have a breakthrough i believe on north korea. >> reporter: as for north korea, the president saying that the details for his historic meeting for kim jung-un had been set. >> we now have a date and we have a location. we'll be announcing it soon. >> reporter: so at the end of all that after a confusing week here at the white house, not much clarity on whether the president did or didn't know about those payments to stormy daniels or what his relationship is with rudy giuliani. one thing is clear, there is still a credibility crisis here in the oval office. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white

house. and there is possibly more legal trouble for mr. trump's personal attorney michael cohen. the "wall street journal" reports that if the 2016 presidential campaign was heating up, cohen took out two lines of credit totaling some $774,000. one was on his manhattan apartment while another was on a trump tower condo owned by his wife's parents. cohen is under criminal investigation because of his business dealings potentially including his role in the stormy daniels payoff which he says he paid out of a home equity line. much to discuss here. amy green is a political science researcher and professor in paris. she wrote the book "america after obama" and joins us from paris. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> let's begin with this news from the "wall street journal" that mr. cohen had access to as much as $774,000 cash at the

time he paid stormily daniels $130,000. this coming as a time when he is being investigated for his business dealings and how hush money was being used. what do you make of it? >> right. it is part of this nebulous web of actors around the president, the question of the opacity of the means by which michael cohen accrued this sum and then the ways in which he potentially used the money during the campaign to protect then candidate trump. it goes back into the question of credibility of transparency of the dealings of the network around trump including trump himself. so this is just sort of another step in this, you know, this growing sort of amassing snowball of doubt surrounding the president. of course there are legal rm if i indications and prosecutors are new york are investigating cohen trying to find out where the money came from and how it was used, but it goes back into the question of the character and nature of the people that

trump decides to surrounds himself with. >> another aspect of this is mr. trump being caught in a blatant untruth. he has said to know of the $130,000 hush money paid to miss daniels months before his public denial of throwing about it. how damaging could that be for the president's credibility? >> well, beyond the question of the president's, you know, diswith regard for tellidi regard for telli disregard for telling the truth to the american people which is quite grave and you can't emergency something worse and even saying that -- giuliani said politics always matters, but it is better to lie to the media than to prosecutors. so there is already that. but then there are the legal questions which really are important. of course one of the primary questions is, you know, did

trump know -- how soon did trump know about these repayments. the president as a person, as an individual, does have the right to protect himself from damaging information. but the payments that he would have made personally would have had to have been disclosed and that is something that he didn't do. another real question remains to what extent did the chief operating officer of the trump organization know about the payments and know what they were for. because american election law does prevent businesses from getting involved, you know, beyond a certain legal limit in the dealings of campaigns. so if the trump organization knew about not only the payments, which it is clear that they did know that there were payments being made to cohen, but if they knew that they were in order to protect candidate trump, then that is an additional level of legal difficulty for the president. >> and if the story weren't already murky enough, enter rudy giuliani this week. he ask a came on as a lawyer fo white house to focus on the

mueller investigation but went on fox newses an and revealed t the president knew about the payment and it wasn't against campaign finance laws. but it sent the white house legal team apparently into a tail spin with that statement. how is it that the white house cannot get its messages straight, speak with one voice on something so important? >> the buck stops somewhere, right? and the buck here stops with the president. when you have a specific culture coming from the top down, then the culture below the president reflects the president himself. the question of messaging has been a constant problem for trump and for his team. he keeps some advisers, you know, close to him and then others are completely in the dark. you saw after the giuliani interview with hannity, sarah huckabee sanders had difficulty even answering a basic question. it was reported widely that giuliani and trump consulted one another before giuliani did the fox news interview, but emmet

flood was completely out of the loop. this is really a question of leadership and judgment. and if donald trump, you know, decides to exercise a leadership strategy of chaos, then it is absolutely unsurprising that this would be reflected in his team and in the statements that they make left and right to various news outlets and publicly. >> and then the president explained giuliani's error as, well, it was his first day on the job and he got his information wrong, we'll sort it out, kind of a no big deal. but apparently it was a big deal on his friendly network fox news. let's listen to this. >> let me be clear, mr. president. how can you drain the swamp if you're the one who keeps muddying the waters? you didn't know about in a $130,000 payment to a porn star until you did. said you knew nothing about how your former lawyer michael cohen handled this until acknowledging today you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this.

let's just say your own words on lots of stuff give me, shall i say, lots of pause. >> that is fox news which for the most part stands by this president no matter how fuzzy the math or the facts. so without fox news behind him, that could erode the president's always constant message is that he is in the right, everything he says is right and factual and the media outside of fox news is always wrong. >> yeah, it's interesting just the way you phrased to think that the president takes refuge in fox news . so if fox news begins to question the president, we'll have to see if that remains the case and if they continue to ask those questions of the president. but certainly it can't help the president and it can't do him any favors or reassure him with the nature of the way things are going. >> and as one analyst put it

earlier as far as all of these events, he said it is like the white house is twisting themselves into a pretzel and that is kind of what it is looking like right now, isn't it. >> yeah, absolutely. and this comes back to the question really of competence. donald trump said he wanted to drain the swamp, but you have to come as the president competent and ready to act on day one and what we see is a scrambling, every week it seems to get worse for the president and at least more complicated. coming in with competent leadership and a strong message and a strong sense of how to conduct the business of the nation and what we tend to see week after week is that the current administration certainly isn't ready for that. and isn't coming organized. and, you know, we're seeing that play out with stephanie cliff d clifford/stormy daniels, with the russian investigation and hurling insults as his sole

defense. so certainly not an optimistic position for the president. >> amy green, thank you as always. long before he worked for the trump campaign, paul manafort had business dealings that have now resulted in federal charges including bank fraud. but a federal judge on friday seemed unimpressed by the case against manafort. he accused special counsel robert mueller's team of going after manafort only to get to president trump. for more on this, here is jessica schneider. >> reporter: a federal judge in virginia seemed to reprimand the special counsel's team in their case against president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort. so a federal judge t.s. ellis, he even lost his temper at times on friday morning while he expressed his doubt that the special counsel is acting within its scope or even properly following its mandate. now, remember paul manafort is facing 18 counts including bank fraud in federal court in virginia. that is on top of the counts

that he faces in washington. so the criticism from his lawyers is that these charges, they don't relate to the campaign and therefore they just go too far for the special counsel. so judge ellis who is a way began reagan appointee, he said you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud, the judge told the team, instead the judge said that the special counsel was only interested in manafort because of what he could provide that would lead to the president's, quote, prosecution or impeachment. the judge continued to say that is what you are really interested in. the judge also continued to say we don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power. it is unlikely that you will persuade me the special counsel has the power to do anything he or she wants. the american people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. so of course it was friday morning, it was a hearing on paul man for the's motiafortman dismiss the virginia case

because he does feel that the special counsel went too far in charging him. the judge will rule on that at a later date. and in the meantime, the judge will be getting access to an unredacted august 27 memo from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and it spells out the spk special counsel's authority. so the memo will remain sealed and only the judge will see it, but that will cast more light on the judge of how broadly the special counsel's powers are, as to what they can investigate and remember that this is the memo that explicitly is said that the special counsel could examine paul man for the's lobbying work in ukraine and notably whether manafort himself colluded with russian government officials during the 2016 campaign. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. we turn to another story next, hawaiians are used to living near volcanos, but for one community this time, it is different. we talk with a resident forced from his home as lava moved into

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this is what it looks like and sounds like when lava tears your neighborhood apart, this is on the eastern coast of hawaii's big island and this was the view for nearly 2,000 people who were evacuated as volcanic ash ripped the 12r50e9s wid 12r50e9s wid s the 12r50e9s witreets wide open after a week of near constant earthquakes including a 6.9 tremor, the biggest to hit hawaii in decades. officials say it shows no sign of slowing down and to stay away from the area. >> we have issued an faa order closing the air space around the eruption site so they won't be able to come to look at the eruption. we would encourage visitors to stay away from the puna area.

the rest of the island is open for visitors clearly on the west side and hilo banyon drive is still continuing to operate with no impact. >> well, let's get the latest from ivan cabrera. boy, this is not the hawaii that we know or see. what is causing all these earthqua earthquakes? >> this is related to the volcano, but fascinating that this area is called the volcano national park. people actually plan vacations to go there just to see it. but this time around, it is putting quite a show on the like of which we haven't seen. we'll talk about that 6.9, one of the strongest quakes hawaii has ever experienced here. so here we are on the eastern side of the big island, this is from april 30th, the loop of all the earthquakes that have occurred in just the last few days. between magnitude of 2.5 and 3.0, we've had upwards of 500 earthquakes just rumbling. and by the way in frequency, those are happening every 10 to 15 minutes. imagine that under your feet.

5.0 occurred thursday and then of course the 5.4 and a 6.9 on friday. we'll talk about that one in a second. fissures as natalie pointed out have continued to open up and roads, we're monitoring five that are quite active right now. and then additional earthquakes of course will continue. this one was particularly strong, the strongest hawaii has seen since 1975 at a 6.9. as a result of basically a rupture along the fault that runs right underneath the volcano and that is why we had such a force, in fact we had a tsunami generated just a few centimeters, not a huge deal, but just to let you know what kind of a thrust we're talking about. that is different from the minor quakes that we've been experiencing. and so follow me here. basically magma, which is lava underground, that continues to rise. and as that happens with all that heat, imagine the pressure continues to build.

where is it going to go is th? it will pop up to the surface in the form of the cracks to release that pressure. but as that is happening, it is also pushing against the rocks. and that is what is causing the tremors. and that will continue to happen. the problem is we don't know where additional fissures will develop and that is important obviously because they will spew lava out and also the toxic fumes that we've been talking about, the sulfur dioxide. so i'll leave you pictures from the electrical service that they took, we have the 6.9 that caused numerous power outages, so they were out and then the lava and fire themselves are also causing additional power outages. we'll continue to monitor the fissures. we may get a 6.1 or more, but we don't know where it will happen in this area which is why they have evacuated so many folks and have let vacationers know to plan another holiday or stay away from this area right now about that. >> a shame to see hawaii going

through this. and it is not over yet. >> that's right. >> ivan, thank you. we've been talking with people affected and we'll talk with one resident now who was forced to leave his home. timothy is on the phone with us from hilo. where are you now and how are you and your family holding up? >> well, i don't have any family here. thank you for having me by the way. i was in hilo earlier today. we made the decision to drive across the island to a town of kona on the west side of island much further away from the activity. but we're holding up good. i'm with 11 people that have been displaced and are homeless and workless right now that were also working on my farm. and it has been a real shocker. the last day we were there, you know, just thursday, we were making a good-bye dinner for one of our friends, making continue he, about to enjoy the dinner and they tell us that we have to go and everything changed in an instant.

you have five minds to pack your bags and you're off. >> right. and you're told on you got to get out. yes, you work and live on a f m farm. what did you experience there as you were told to evacuate? what did you see and what did you feel? >> it all started with little tiny tremors, maybe some were swimming and you didn't notice them. then we had word that the lava shelf had collapsed and it could pop up anywhere at any time. because we are right on the east shelf. so the first thing that happened was a crack across our road. the first one opened up at my next door nape, lits eighbor, l the next property from where we're out. and that is where the crack opened up and started spewing.

all the clips you see, that is my road. and so con cops came once, no b deal. twice, okay, it's serious. but then the third time, we were forced to evacuate. and we stayed in the area obviously we went to the nearest shelter which was fine. and then the next day we went about you are on business and kind of felt it out. and i was in a supermarket when the 6.9 hit which is one of the scariest places as you can be, as you can imagine glass falling, bottles falls, things falling off the shelf. a ton of people in the store, everybody going crazy. and it lasted a good 10, 15 ekd seco seconds. and i didn't know what do. tried to figure out what was going to happen, should i go outside, should i stay inside. i've never experienced an earthquake. >> yes, because i was reading if i have this right that you are from chicago and that you had only been in hawaii a year.

this is supposed to be paradise. so this must be very difficult what you're experiencing. is it frightening? >> yeah, i kind of felt this -- okay, i'm going to live by a volcano, which is crazy. but chicago is also crazy, dealing with the winter, not the safe he is plast place in the w. so everywhere you move, you still have things to deal with and weigh those out when you move. but it is an eye opener. feeling my first earthquake was earlier today i was standing on a person's porch, we just got done swimming at the beach and the house started shaking. i was like what is this? and then we felt the big one in the supermarket and i'm seeing smoke come up as we're driving across this road called red road which goes around the out side of the island. you could see the fires. you could see the eruption, you could see everything across from where you were. and i started making videos and posting them to social media. like i was a reporter and i had

a fake microphone and i was giving an update what was happening. i was trying to keep everybody lighthearted because the people that i'm with aren't ready for this, they are younger than me, some from europe, some from all over the world. and they are not -- they were not expecting this to happen. so i'm mainly trying to stay lighthearted and really just keep everybody calm and positive. >> well, that is a very good approach to take. and we hope that it works with those younger people you're with. and timothy, thanks so much for taking the time with us. we know this is a very difficult time and we hope that you can get back to your farm at some point. >> it's not looking likely. you know, i try to make everything positive. i learned one or two things during this experience and that a lot of people try to look at how ungreat testimony ateful ors happening to them instead of being grateful. and i believe takes human

fallacy to feel that way and to not be enjoying your day and enjoying your company. and we walk around thinking that we'll be able to say good-bye. i had to leave cats. i left four cats on my property. and i didn't know i was going to have to say good-bye to them. i didn't have the chance. but i walked around every day thinking that i was going to. >> yeah, that is always sad when animals are left behind. thank you so much for your time and your good attitude and we wish you all the best. >> feel free to look me up if you want to know what happens to me after this. >> we'll stay in touch. thanks so much. take care. u.s. president trump says a date has been set for his meeting with the north korean leader. and he will let us know soon. we'll go live to seoul next for the latest. hi. i'm the one clocking in... when you're clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable.

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welcome back. you are watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm naturally allen. the "wall street journal" report says during the 2016 presidential campaign, donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen took out two lines of credit totaling $774,000. cohen continues to be under criminal investigation and the "new york times" reports mr. trump actually knew about the hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels several months before telling reporters aboard air force one that he knew nothing about it. on hawaii's big island, lava continues to erupt and deep cracks in streets 30 kilometers from the kilauea volcano. and there are also high levels of toxic gas. this is after a week of near

constant earthquakes including the strongest tremor to hit the state in decades. prince harry and meghan markle have released new details about their big day. the bride will ride with her mother to windsor castle for the ceremony, her father will walk her down the aisle and she will not have a maid of honor. we are learning more about president trump's upcoming meetings with the leaders of north and south korea. the white house says moon jae-in will visit washington may 22. meantime mr. trump is building a little suspense for his upcoming meeting with north korea. he says the time and place are set and will be revealed soon. alexander field joining us now from seoul. yes, the location of the meeting will be important because the north korean leader hasn't really traveled very far from his north korea environment, has he, alex? >> reporter: right.

and it is not exactly clear why if the date and time have been set this remain as mystery that the president is teasing ahead to. he hasn't said when the big reveal will happen, but certainly there has been a lot of speculation about where the meeting could happen. all sides that are involved here have indicated that they are looking very strongly the possibility of having this meeting at the dmz, from the optics perspective, that seems to have appealed from president trump and from the logistics perspective as you point out that would certainly be an easy trip for kim jung-un to make. he has really only traveled outside of north korea once since coming to power as far as we know and that was the trip about a month ago to beijing to sit with president xi jinping. and the other possibility for this summit is the idea that it could happen in singapore. and certainly there are those within the administration who seem to be pushing the president that a neutral option like singapore could be the right choice to make, that it would appear too conciliatory to president trump to travel all the way to the dmz.

of course before that summit happens, there is this meeting with between the south korean president and president trump, a lot of ground work was being laid for that within the last day. the national security chief from south korea traveled to d.c. to sit down with the national security adviser not only to debrief on what happened during the north korea/south korea summit, but also to talk more about what is expected to happen during that big summit between trump and kim. >> and as far as forward moving developments, we know kim jung-un reset the clock so north korea would be aligned in the same time zone as south korea. and now we hear there are reports of possibility of flights between the two countries. what do you know about that? >> reporter: yeah, these are pretty rapid developments. we do know that a u.n. committee will travel to north korea this week to assess the possibility. they will be looking at the navigation route, at various safety issues. this was a proposal actually first made by north korea in

february when we were seeing tensions,0 s thaw on the penins. the request or the proposal is still being weighed by south korean aviation officials, but yeah, essentially they are asking to open up an air route that would connect pyongyang with south korea. it will certainly be a major step forward following another symbolic step forward that we've seen in the last 24 hours. as you point out, north korea taking the step to moving their time zone up a half hour so they could be in sync with south korea. north korea state news agency saying this is another step toward accelerating the process of making north korea and south korea one. so certainly a lot of developments here as we watch the climate on the peninsula changing quickly. >> yes, we do. and actual very hopeful. alexander field for us, thank you. u.s. president trump came with a message for the world's biggest gun rights group -- "i'm with you." mr. trump told the crowd at the

national rifle association convention in dallas that he would stop any attempt to change gun rights. however, after the parkland school shooting in florida that claimed 17 lives, mr. trump outlined some changes. among them, expanded background checks, taking guns from the mentally ill and raising the minimum age for purchase. he eventually backed off those ideas and didn't even mention them in friday's speech to the nra. >> democrats and liberals in congress want to disarm law abiding americans at the same time they are releasing dangerous criminal aliens and savage gang members on to our streets. your second amendment rights are under siege. but they will never, ever be under siege as long as i'm your president. >> what happened from just the

parkland shooting and the president's speech there? certainly a fiery one. anderson cooper spoke with two survivors of the parkland, florida school shooting specifically about mr. trump's change in tone in his speech to the nra, one ever hof his bigge donors. >> we heard from the president shortly after the shooting. obviously he struck a very different tone than he did today. back then you thought he was heading in the right direction. what do you think today? >> well, you you know, he was saying some things that implied that he was stepping forward into the right direction for gun safety in this country. and then he had a meeting with some nra officials, a private meeting, and afterwards he came and claimed that the second amendment was under siege and he was going to defend it. so as to whether or not the nra meeting changed his views, that is kind of up to speculation. but i will tell you that is hopefully the first russian funded group he has met with.

>> and i would like to say i think it shows what he's doing proves where his heart and wallet are and that is in the exact same place. one of the interesting things trump brought up is how we don't talk about mental health, yet in a recent bill, they cut mental health funding to schools by over $25 million. that didn't sound like a health care system for schools to me. >> we will continue to follow of course that story. some 90,000 hondurans in the u.s. now face deportation, this after the trump administration decided to end the protected status of immigrants who came to the u.s. after a 1998 hurricane in honduras. they will have 18 months to make other arrangements to stay in the u.s. or leave. this year the trump administration has already ended the protected status of nearly 60,000 haitians. more than a quarter million salvadore rans, about 5,000 from nicaragua and nearly 15,000 from nepal. a sea change could be coming

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friday turned into another day of violence along the israel/gaza brother dorder. fire was set and pipes carrying fuel were damaged. israeli authorities say around 10,000 people rioted at several locations. israel reportedly responded with live rounds and tear gas. palestinian officials say at least 400 people were wounded, but no one was killed. friday marked six weeks since palestinians began their so-called march of return protest. and lebanon's parliamentary

election is grabbing attention. there are 130 election observers being sent. this is lebanon's first vote in nine years and it will likely shape regional politics. iran backed hezbollah looks to gain seats while its main rival is the party of the prime minister supported by saudi arabia. but old power struggles will also face some fresh challenges. new voters and a new election law could shake up the status quo. cnn's ben wedeman reports from beirut. >> reporter: showered with rice, the prime minister takes to the stage on the last day of campaigning. this is his stronghold sunni west beirut where he is received more like a rock star than a politician. since becoming prime minister for a second time in 2016, he has managed to bring relative

stability to an often deeply divided country. >> what i did two years ago is reunited the country around the political consensus. >> reporter: his consensus involved forming a government that included ministers from hezbollah. it was a marriage of convenience that didn't please everyone, particularly his saudi backer, but lebanon has been spared a significant spillover of the violence from neighboring syria. and for a country with vivid memory of its own 15 year civil war, that is no small achievement. >> this is lebanon's first election in nine years. the question is, will all the new voters go for the old poll contin tesch shans or try something new. lebanon's interior minister is a close political ally of hariri. he recognizes the times are a changing.

>> when you have 800,000 new voters, you have to change dwrourd. you cann you your attitude. you cannot do the same like before. >> reporter: a new election law has opened the door to more independent candidates. many eager to shake off lebanon's legacy of sectarian politics. this man lacks the resources to run a flashy campaign, but he has energy and a group of dedicated supporters. don't we want new people, he asked a possible voter. impatient like the drivers in the congested streets, he wants to rip power from the old elite. >> we want to take our country back. we lost it in the hand of people who don't want to improve it. >> reporter: lebanese voters are faced with a mind boggling array of choices.

politics here is a confusing kaleidoscope of religions, clans, parties and personalities. ranging from the likes of hez ls carried on a rally in the rain, to a civil society candidate runs in the mountains of beirut. she is one of 86 women running for parliament this year. seven times more than in 2009. >> more women are educated, more women are employed, more women are financially independent, more women are single. there is a shift demographically. >> reporter: just one shift in a country where change may come one leaflet at a time. ben wedeman, cnn, beirut. still to come here, the extraordinary effort to help black rhinos survive in the african wild. with 5 times more regions

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here. the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle, the american. we're bride's parents will have key roles. mark markle's mother will ride with her to the ceremony and her father will walk her down the chapel aisle. she will not have a maid of honor. as for the groom, prince harry wants his late mother's side of the family to ob involved. diana's older sister is sxwektssxwekts expected to give a reading. and the couple will not go on an immediate honeymoon trip. we'll keep you posted as the moment marches closer. black rhinos are teetering on the edge of extensiincextincy due to relentless poaching. only about 5,000 still exist in the african wild. and now an ambitious project is returning black rhinos to places where they haven't been seen in

years. cnn's robyn kriel has our report. >> reporter: relocating a rhino is no easy feat, but conser conservationists with african parks are taking on the challenge. nearly 50 years after the species was wiped out in chad, six critically endangered black rhinos are being transported in an effort to bring the large mammals back to their former ranges on the continent. >> the key element of large populations, so they can serve as good sources for other places where rhinos used to live that they now are extinct, move them to those areas and allow rhinos to start living in the range that they formerly had. and this is a very good thing. it is always a small start.

you have to see big picture, but you have to start small and act now. >> reporter: rhinos were sedated and put into specially designed crates for the 4800 kilometer flight. the group's goal is to restore biodiversity in chad. they are also hoping the animals will breed to increase the population of rye hinos there. rhinos are one of the most threatened species on the planet. there are fewer than 25,000 in the african wild. of those, only 5,000 are black rhinos. the rest are white rhinos. the species has been hit hard by poachers who supply their horns to a booming asian market where they are used for medicinal purposes. once they arrive in chad, the rhinos will be placed into holding pens before being released into a temporary sanctuary to familiarize them with their new surroundings. staff have undertaken year of

research, planning and preparation and received training in rhino tracking and monitoring to make a park a new safe home for the rhinos. robyn kriel, cnn. we're all pulling for them. a dairy farm worker in new zealand is thanking his lucky stars after making a spectacular but dangerous discovery. he was stunned to find a massive sinkhole 200 meters along, look at that, about 650 feet, and six stories deep. down below, a deposit from a volcano that erupted here 60,000 years ago. the chasm opened up after days of heavy rain. people here say the farm worker was lucky he didn't ride his motor bike into the abyss in the early morning darkness. i'll say. very lucky. i'm natalie allen. i'll be back with our top stories and another hour of "cnn newsroom" right after this short break.

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